8 Aug 2015
The message from this past Sunday still lingers: God lays
before us the “bread of life.” Every day
he gives us all of creation, his teachings, divine wisdom; he gives us his
promises that he’ll always be with us.
He gives us those great commandments to love God and love our neighbor
as ourselves. He even gives us—and this
is something we don’t always remember—he gives us, he invites us to share in,
his divinity.
On this memorial of St Dominic, the patron saint of
preachers, we recall that the word that we preach to others and the word that
is preached to us is this: With God all things are possible—so go through life
as a companion of God. How important it
is to go through life with God by our side; or more importantly, with us by God’s side—because from God alone comes
the bread of life. From God alone comes
everything we need to live.
By ourselves, we can’t achieve the depths and the heights of
life that we desire. But if we hang on
to God, we can. If we can say to God, “I
love you, Lord, my strength,” then the Lord can be our strength. If we have
real faith in him and open our spirits to receive his Holy Spirit, then he can give us the “bread of life;” he can give
us everything we need in life.
But it begins with faith.
It begins with hearing and believing deeply that God alone is God. And with us by his side for life, nothing will be impossible. God gives us the “bread of life;” everything
we could possibly need in life. All we
have to do is open our hands, say “Amen” to him, and receive him and his divine
blessings into our hearts and into our lives.
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